Give me some dialogue from your day

[Arch]

Me- I think if i learnt how to do sign language it would be very useful when im counselling the deaf.
Sister: *Laughs* really i think its hard and you there is alot of ettquites in sign language. And start counselling those in English first before anything else.
Me- I could try like speaking Japanese, Chinese, korean and Arabic.
Sister (stunned)- Look start learning your ORIGINAL mother tongue language first.
Me- What English?
Sister- ARABIC!

Opps, gosh was i told off about the sign language part. Still no harm in trying! lol

Go for it! I learnt BSL for about three years at evening classes, got up to the level 2 exam. I've forgotten a lot now, as that was 20 years ago, but I reckon it would come back if I did a refresher course.

I've barely used it outside the classes, but it was good to learn, and if nothing else, gives an insight into another community.

 

[ColinJ]

Mate: "I wouldn't spend week after week just hanging about in the house!"

ColinJ: "I haven't chosen to 'just hang about in the house' - I'm ill!"

Mate: "Still, I'd push myself a bit harder to get fit again."

ColinJ: "Trust me - if you had clots in your lungs and leg the size of the ones I have in mine, you bloody well wouldn't!"

Mate: "I would - I can't stand being stuck indoors!"

(At which point, I stood, rolled up my PJ legs and pointed at my calf muscles.)

30 seconds passed ...

Mate: "Er, why has your left leg swollen up and gone purple?"

ColinJ: "DVT, Deep Vein Thrombosis - I've got a ferkin' great blood clot in it which is why I'm not getting out much these days!"

Mate: "Ah!"

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!!!

 

[Andrew_Culture]

Go for it! I learnt BSL for about three years at evening classes, got up to the level 2 exam. I've forgotten a lot now, as that was 20 years ago, but I reckon it would come back if I did a refresher course.

I've barely used it outside the classes, but it was good to learn, and if nothing else, gives an insight into another community.

Excellent! I never got around to exams or classes but a deaf guy I worked with refused to communicate in any other way to force me to learn, by the time I quit that job I could translate at training days and whatnot. I haven't used BSL regularly for about fifteen years but it does come flooding back when it needs to.

We're using some signing with our baby, it's amazing!

 

[GrasB]

I really don't miss tape backups!

In all honesty it's not a problem. It's a really neat system with serious redundancy built in home directory backups (we use Linux & Solaris as our primary OSs).
The home disk servers are 24x600GB drives (2x 10 drives in RAID60 + 4 hot spares) which sync to backup servers overnight alternating between 2 pools of discs.
The users can access yesterdays files live. This gives us full array I/O for the dumping all 9.6TB of data to 25 LTO-4 tapes managed by an auto-loader, this takes in a shade under 24 hours).
The auto-loader manages the weekly/monthly backups within its own tape library. It also accepts 4 cartridges of 15 'guest' tapes (16 tapes one of which is a cleaning tape). So some time during the day we unload yesterdays backup & replace them with tomorrows tapes.

All we have to worry about it unloading & loading the guest cartridges which takes 5 min every day

 

[jann71]

Me: one multi ticket please
Lady: it may close due to wind
Me: oh is it going to get windy?
Lady: it aleady is
Me: ok, will I need to walk down
Lady: no, we'll bring you back

Omg I'm now on gondola and its stopped 3 times and not at top yet!

 

[Andrew_Culture]

In all honesty it's not a problem. It's a really neat system with serious redundancy built in home directory backups (we use Linux & Solaris as our primary OSs).
The home disk servers are 24x600GB drives (2x 10 drives in RAID60 + 4 hot spares) which sync to backup servers overnight alternating between 2 pools of discs.
The users can access yesterdays files live. This gives us full array I/O for the dumping all 9.6TB of data to 25 LTO-4 tapes managed by an auto-loader, this takes in a shade under 24 hours).
The auto-loader manages the weekly/monthly backups within its own tape library. It also accepts 4 cartridges of 15 'guest' tapes (16 tapes one of which is a cleaning tape). So some time during the day we unload yesterdays backup & replace them with tomorrows tapes.

All we have to worry about it unloading & loading the guest cartridges which takes 5 min every day

Ah, it was always recovery I dreaded and it looks like you've found a neat way to fix that.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

Me: one multi ticket please
Lady: it may close due to wind
Me: oh is it going to get windy?
Lady: it aleady is
Me: ok, will I need to walk down
Lady: no, we'll bring you back

Omg I'm now on gondola and its stopped 3 times and not at top yet!

Photo please!

 

[marafi]

I think you're right! Even one lesson in sign language is great for empathy in general.

True but sadly, with me i would mess up even any form of empathy. Still better to learn from mistakes then not to learn anything!

 

[marafi]

*WAS LOST*

ME- err your going to Lambeth bridge right?
Random lady on a bike too- Yes i am.
Me- Can i join you im abit lost.
Lady- yes.
Me- (trying to start a covo horribly wrong)- So where you from?
Lady_ berlin
Me- Oh wow
Lady- How about you?
Me- Here
Lady- What this area. Its a nice place.
ME- (Was shocked that she said my area was a nice place. And its a scary area in the night time.) Errr well.

 

[gbb]

Me (larking about)...'I want my £758.00 '
Wife..'Eh, what're you talking about ? '
Me..'The £758.00 ive saved since i packed up smoking '
Wife...'It was my money anyway, you always smoked MY cigarettes '

Me (thinking)...'Oh '

 

[jann71]

Photo please!

 

[Andrew_Culture]

Wow, for how long did you dangle in the breeze?

 

[jann71]

Just a few minutes, they closed it for the day about an hour later.

 

[Matthew_T]

Just a few minutes, they closed it for the day about an hour later.

Imagine if you had been stuck on there overnight! Just like a recent film where 3 friends were stuck on one at a skiing resort (and only the girl made it out alive).

 

[ohnovino]

The signature below those photos made me laugh